Celts are playing like employees for corporate America

[TitleMaster]

Folks, let's face it, outside of certain intense firms like Apple or Google, the average worker bee in corporate America hates his job and is only in it for the paycheck. Thus, you typically see substandard motivation and low morale, wherever you go; the execs are always trying to get their golden parachutes (and/or profit from options backdating) and they don't care about employee retention and their career growth anymore. This is today's corporate climate, perhaps less than 20% of the companies aren't like this but a majority are.

Ok, with the above in mind, the NBA vis-a-vis player's union has guaranteed every player to have a golden parachute and semi-private coaching. With that in mind, why the hell doesn't the Celts play with some more pride and at least attempt to play better 3rd quarters and a slightly tighter game?

[Witch-King]

The only reason why the Celtics are able to lose to a team like the New Jersey Nets, a team that has only won 6 games thus far this season and has struggled to get even 1,000 fans to show up to some of their home-games this season is because the NBA has salary caps.

Imagine if the Celtics could cash in on the fact that they have some of the most loyal fans (largest fan base) AND have enjoyed a winning tradition that has granted them more NBA titles than any other basketball franchise in the same way that say, the New York Yankees (Boston's long-time rivals) are able to purchase all of the best players from other baseball franchises. I mean, the City of New York is willing to pay whatever it costs in order to gain as much advantage over opponents as possible and are allowed to do so because of the lack of regulation on spending in baseball, which is what causes the disparity between winning franchises like the Yanks and the Red Sox come late in the MLB season when compared to teams like, say the Cincinnati 'Reds' (America's oldest professional sports franchise) who haven't made the playoffs for over 10+ years (I'm from Cincinnati, btw).

This might be some of the reason why the current crop of Celtics can't be fully motivated to want to win every single game when someone like Gilbert Arenas will get a bigger contract than any of the big 3 and not even be required (or expected to in some cases) to win more than 45+ games a season. The NBA's salary cap system does help insure that the league as a whole is more competitive, but at the eventual expense of established teams that have enjoyed a tradition of winning/dynasties. We have all seen how quickly 3 former franchise players in the Big 3 converged in Boston to decimate the league en route to their first NBA Championship in over 20 years, and then how quickly, seemingly the Big 3 have been worn down by the demands of competing in the NBA against some of the worlds most talented, capable athletes night after night. I mean, they're only human.

There is alot more that I could comment about on this topic...

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